Toby risked a glance from behind the hood of a Ford minivan that now had a football-sized lump of masonry poking through the windshield. It had been the nearest place to hide. Everybody in the street had fled in panic, although the swirling smoke made it difficult to see very far. “Look!” Toby wh...
Books shot off shelves and stacks of papers and cups of pens flew off the desk. Pete and Lorna toppled backward from their chairs, while Toby and Emily both pitched forward and hid under the desk as the light storm ravaged the office. With a loud crack the lightning fizzled out. Toby peered cauti...
Every indication they found—dry dung, gorilla nests, and a pile of half-chewed bones—indicated that the area hadn’t been lived in for a week or so. Jane was relieved that Tarzan had moved his family on almost immediately after they last parted. Greystoke didn’t appear over...
His army of beasts had melted into the jungle, save Tantor and his herd, who carried the weary loggers back to their own camp. At Tarzan’s insistence, they had left the dead—human and animal—where they had fallen. Tarzan and Jane rode Tantor. Tarzan never once acknowledged...
She guided her reluctant parents into a music store and began her usual petulant demands for various CDs. From across the bank of CDs, Jake watched his sister rifle through the new releases, and he grinned despite himself. Ordinarily he would have had to endure her sulking and tantrums, but right...
The desert had a magnifying effect as it dipped over the sand dunes of the United Arab Emirates and far-off Saudi Arabia. Basilisk was not looking at the celestial display but at the towering oil rig that stood in the tranquil waters of the Persian Gulf. A fiery plume flickered continuously from ...
He felt foolish for allowing himself to be captured and now found himself in close proximity to Nikolas Rokoff. To his surprise, Rokoff had been a perfect gentleman and offered him water and food after saving him from the thugs in the truck beating him black and blue. Rokoff had yelled at them. H...